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Also the idea that "cancel culture" is even a left-wing thing is laughable.

There is not a week that goes by that a conservative group of some stripe is not calling for the boycott of something or someone. There hasn't been a year that has gone by that this is not the case - anyone who grew up in the 90s would remember that this was generically video games in response to every social issue, then specific developers, before that it was comic books. For some reason in the 80s it was the imagined cabal's of Satan worshipers and the very real lives which were ruined by it in an actual way (they went to jail).




Historically that is undoubtedly correct. Doesn't mean you should repeat that mistake for your own party.


Anyone remember Milo Yiannapolous?


Milo in 2018

"I can't wait for vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight"

2 days later when 5 are killed at the Capitol Gazette

"jk"

Then there was the article he wrote ""Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy" where he argued that the pill made women fat crazy and promiscuous and then declared his birthday "World Patriarchy Day"

Then the time he said that being gay was "a lifestyle choice guaranteed to bring pain and unhappiness." Just reroll as hetrosexual folks!

Then there was the time he said it was OK for sexually mature 13 year olds to have sex with adults then claimed being the victim of sexual abuse made him say it. He also said abuse victims were "whinging selfish brats" for "suddenly" remembering they were abused, and "suddenly" deciding it was a problem, 20 years after the abuse occurred.

How about the fact that he used his tenure at Breitbart to court white supremacists and promote their views.

He was canceled in fact by none other than Breitbart not for this of course but for the pedophile comments which was apparently a bridge too far.

Is this an example "cancel culture" gone too far?


>where he argued that the pill made women fat crazy and promiscuous

I'm not aware of psychological side effects, but weight gain while taking the most common form of birth control pills is expected and normal. At least that's what the doctor told my wife and I.

Milo was basically a professional troll though. His banning was inevitable.


He's not merely a professional troll he's a dishonest, hostile, malicious person who has made the world a worse place by being born into it.


No offense intended, but people like you fed the troll. He obviously didn't believe a damn thing he wrote. You made him everything he became. Also, I would argue that every single person born into this world has made it a worse place. Where man stands, he leaves damage.


Well, he obviously knew where to poke. I think his banning was an overreaction. People could have opted no to listen to him. But he knew what sentiment was moving people, therefore he had quite a following.


I was mostly just referencing him being famously cancelled by the right....




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